Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone’s cup of tea and He...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.

It sounded so proper to lie for the sake of a beloved.

Children – if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children – children lie all the time.

My step-dad’s rendition of events was uncontested even by me and therefore, it became our truth. Truth I’d never be able to prove or change; truth that protected him from suspicion and penalty. Truth that...

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall...

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don’t know, say, ‘I don’t know’.

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator’s credo that one doesn’t so much fabricate...

But the lies which Odette ordinarily told were less innocent, and served to prevent discoveries which might have involved her in the most terrible difficulties with one or another of her friends. And so, when...

That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard come out of your mouth, which says a lot since you’re the biggest liar I’ve ever met.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don’t look down.

I know a lie when I hear one.

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be...

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!

The advantage does lie with us because we’re at home and if we can’t motivate ourselves for this match then we can’t motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for...

La mayor parte del tiempo la mentira es el atajo más corto a la felicidad.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.

It was just a lie that seemed real.It was a promise that was never meant to be true.The forever that had a deadline.It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in aheartbreak café!

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe it. I think the law is there to enforce fictions that would not...

Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.

I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

A lie makes up 3/4ths of life.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

Truth is the biggest lie.

The best lies were always mixed with truth.

Okay, I’ve lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn’t defend my right to be friends with another guy.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with...

Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don’t like to lie to myself.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that’s such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn’t imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we’d done? It would ruin everything....

Truth with love is a lie

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.